Northwest Fishing Reports

Hey I have been having some tough luck trying to get some ducks the last couple of weeks.... does anyone know of some places where the hunting has been good? I really would like to get some mallards but I will go for anything!! please get back to me!!! thanks!!!!

You want any teal?

I could definately do teal.... just something.... the only place I have been doing well is on the Columbia River... the basin is starting to freeze up so there isnt much out there except for Potholes and Moses Lake

Up around Brewster on the Columbia should be pretty good right now. I have been jump shooting creeks and irrigation canals and have been doing really well. With the cold snap all of the ponds are locked and even the Yakima River has ice backing up so the birds are going to move out of here. They usually go to the Columbia when it freezes like this so it should be some awesome hunting in the next few days over there. Our birds will move to the Columbia by McNary Dam and that area. Creeks and drainage ditches are the places to hunt right now. Good luck.

I have been going to Brewster, cause thats where I usually go when the Basin freezes..... there are a ton of divers up there...... all of the Greater Scaup are in and Redheads are in too......... Some Ringnecks, Goldeneyes, and Bufflehead..... Lots of Canvasback... too bad you can't shoot any... there are some Mallards around up there........ there are not ery many Wigeon which I thought there would be!!!! but there are thousands up there.... its great shooting!!!!! I just wish I would have been able to get some more Mallards this year........

There are tons of mallards here in the Yakima Valley right now. The ponds and river is still frozen, but the irrigation creeks have tons of birds in them. i am going to Walla Walla Saturday. We have a little spot next to Mill Creek where this old dairy use to be. There is a warm water spring that creates a little back water in this pasture and the owner put a blind for us and it is awesome when the ducks and geese find it. We are hoping this is the weekend! Will post pictures on Sunday.

that sounds awesome!!! please do post up some pics!! that would be sweet!!

anyone else doing any good on ducks?

Did not make it to Walla Walla today. We left at 4:30 am because it is a two hour drive and ran into to some freezing rain and had to turn back. Will try again next weekend. We got home and at about 8:00 it was nice and sunny. Should of pushed through the rain, but who knew it was going to clear!

anybody hunt the westside or does everyone hunt the east side?

i hunt westside, mainly skagit and snohomish delta

I'll be up working in Mt Vernon tomorrow Tuesday.I'll look and see if anything much is happening and report back what I see.Im working at the Hospital area then theres a glass shop there I go to then the Skagit Delta.

kavykid2k6 wrote:i hunt westside, mainly skagit and snohomish delta

same here ive done pretty well this season on ducks & snow geese

i have done okay this year, alot of small ducks, no real fat northerns yet.

i havent got sqwat for snow geese this year, watched some dumb@$$ shoot a swan, i promptly informed the gamey's

kavykid2k6 wrote:watched some dumb@$$ shoot a swan, i promptly informed the gamey's

how can people be so stupid to mistake a Swan for a Snow goose.... the swans are like 4 times as big!!!!! that kind of stuff just pisses me off!!!!! people need to know what they are shooting before they shoot!!!! otherwise we are going to start losing our priviledges as hunters!!!!!

Opening day Deer hunting in Eastern Wa#-o We had to spray paint the cattle= (Cows) in Bright Orange for all those Seattle top end hunters that shot 3 or 4 every opener! :colors:
Loved my Uncle when he would show up kill side with a 10 gauge and 454 Casull and ask how would you want those cut???
I mean Your Truck?:cheers: :colors:

Swedefish.... those kind of things are just unbelieveable how people can be so stupid to mistake things like that!!! you just shake your head and wonder what the heck they are thinking!!!!!

Kept me active:cheers: I was always lean on good sparring partners!:bball:

well I guess that is one way of looking at things!!!! I just dont want a couple people to do dumb things and ruin the priviledges that the rest of us work really hard to have....

I've been hunting King County (south) and this year we have had a merganser, shovellers, mallards, wigeons, speckle front geese, and one flock of Canada's, but thats it. I've seen no teal, no snow geese, and very few canadas (like I mentioned). Kinda bummed, but I think this saturday I'm going to give it the old college try down at my tried and true lake in Orting. (pierce county)

Went scouting on the Columbia down below Paterson. There are thousands of ducks and geese down there. The sky was black with ducks over a corn field just before dark. Seems that a huges waves of waterfowl has pushed to this area during the cold snap. I will be hunting down here until the end of the season.